Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 65-66

Trachinocephalus trachinus (Temminck & Schlegel 1846) — Indo-West Pacific snakefish

Status at New Ireland. First record from New Ireland by Wang et al. (2018), based on a NTUM 11201 (1 specimen, St. CP 4456-14, northeast of Bangatang ).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan. Found on sand or sand-rubble areas of the lower continental and insular shelf and upper slope, 3–400 m depth. Marine.